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March 17, 2020

Brother of Manchester bomber found guilty of murdering 22 innocent people in Ariana Grande terror attack

The brother of the Ariana Grande Manchester Arena bomber has been found guilty of 22 charges of murder. Hashem Abedi, 22, was found to have conspired with his brother Salman Abedi, who died by suicide after he detonated a bomb at an Ariana Grande concert in May 2017. The trial at the Old Bailey, London, …...

March 17, 2020

Man who murdered his Facebook friend while posing as a sex worker claims he can’t be gay because he’s a plumber

A man in Nigeria murdered his gay Facebook friend after he reached out to him on the social networking site to “engage in homosexual acts” for money. Angus Chukwuebuka Nwankwo, 28, admitted to brutally beating his Facebook friend to death with a stick and dumping his body in a bush. But the Nwankwo’s...

March 17, 2020

Jeremy Joseph closes G-A-Y until further notice just hours after branding Boris Johnson a c**t in sweary rant

Heaven and G-A-Y owner Jeremy Joseph has announced that all of his clubs in London and Manchester will close until further notice. The move comes after prime minister Boris Johnson advised people to avoid theatres, restaurants, pubs and nightclubs to help tackle the coronavirus pandemic – but opted not to force venues to...

March 17, 2020

Ghana’s chief imam uses his coronavirus address to the nation to call gay people ‘demonic’. Yes, really

In a speech calling on the country to adhere to the president’s directive on coronavirus, Ghana’s chief imam has also managed to call LGBT+ people “demonic”. Sheikh Dr Osamanu Sharubutu addressed the country via a broadcast from his house, after Ghana’s president Akufo-Addo banned usual...

March 17, 2020

Singapore’s Pink Dot Pride cancelled for the first time in its 12 year history, will be livestreamed instead

Singapore’s epic Pink Dot Pride rally has been cancelled and replaced with a livestream as the coronavirus sweeps across the globe. The huge event usually attracts thousands of spectators to Singapore’s Hong Lim Park, but for the first time in its 12-year history the rally will not take place. Instead,...

March 17, 2020

HIV-positive people in Wuhan are struggling to get the drugs they need during coronavirus lockdown

People living with HIV in Wuhan are struggling to get antiretrovirals due to the ongoing coronavirus lockdown. The Chinese city of Wuhan, which is home to 11 million people, was the epicentre of the initial coronavirus in China. HIV-positive people in Wuhan are struggling to get drugs during coronavirus lockdown. A CNN...

March 17, 2020

Majority of trans people first question their gender before they’re seven years old, landmark study finds

Most trans people are seven years old when they first question their gender, scientists say. Published on March 16 in medical journal JAMA Open Network, the authors found that three-quarters of transgender men and women first experience gender dysphoria by the age of seven. Thought to be the first time researchers have...

March 17, 2020

This is how Russia’s homophobe-in-chief Vladimir Putin is trying to cling to power for another 16 years

Russia’s Constitutional Court has approved changes to the country’s constitution which could allow homophobic president Vladimir Putin to stay in power for another 16 years. Putin has already been president of Russia since 2000, but current term limits would prevent him from running for president again in the...

March 17, 2020

This evangelical homophobe claims gay people want to destroy the ‘natural family’. Now she’s getting a divorce

An evangelical anti-LGBT activist known for protesting Pride events is getting a divorce because of her husband’s “sexual immorality”. Elizabeth Johnson, known online as the ‘Activist Mommy’, has previously shown her fervour in promoting fundamentalist “biblical values” by...

March 17, 2020

Wendy Williams sinks to new lows by ‘openly mocking’ victims of Drag Race’s Sherry Pie

Wendy Williams has been called out by one of the men who accused Drag Race queen Sherry Pie of abuse – after her show’s surreal on-air response to the incident. Sherry Pie, real name Joey Gugliemelli, was disqualified from the current 12th season of RuPaul’s Drag Race after five men accused her of catfishing...